Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis with Joint Estimation of Acoustic and Excitation Model Parameters

7th ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, SSW 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 88-93

  Maia, Ranniery ^a   Zen, Heiga ^a   Gales, M J F ^a  

^a TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

excitation modeling; factor analysis; statistical parametric speech synthesis; trajectory hidden Markov model

Indexed keywords

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

ACOUSTICS MODEL; EXCITATION MODELING; FACTORS ANALYSIS; HIDDEN-MARKOV MODELS; JOINT ESTIMATION; JOINT MODELS; MODELING PARAMETERS; STATISTIC MODELING; STATISTICAL PARAMETRIC SPEECH SYNTHESIS; TRAJECTORY HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

EID: 84865797109     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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